Elites also
get better award availability.
Cardholders also
get better award availability than non-cardholders, which could come in especially handy now that the holiday travel season is upon us.
Not exact matches
As you point out earlier in the comments, close - in there is pretty
good award availability, and being willing to pay a change fee on an economy booking is a great way to
get there.
Medallion members (Delta's elite program) have
better award availability, and you can
get status quickly and easily through co-branded credit cards like Delta SkyMiles Platinum and Delta SkyMiles Reserve.
A lot of people prefer the in - air product of Jet Blue over Southwest for longer flights since it has tv's, free wifi, more leg room, business / first class «Mint» cabins, allows you to pick your seat, etc. but both airlines constantly rate among the
best for
award availability, making them both solid choices for
getting around the country, in terms of finding
award seats.
While
award availability is not phenomenal it's still
better than many of the other options for
getting to Australia, so if you have Alaska miles then consider Cathay Pacific as a primary choice.
Today I wanted to cover how the
best way to
get to Asia right now is with outstanding Asiana business class
award availability.
When I saw the
award availability, temptation
got the
better of me and, as things stand, I'm booked to fly an epically long journey between London and Auckland connecting to the second ever service out of Doha:
I expect United to be quite tight with premium cabin
award availability on this flight until they
get a
better idea of what load factors are going to be like....
Whether you're an Avios or AAdvantage Miles collector these Iberia routes are a very
good way of
getting to / from the west coast without paying the higher taxes and fees that we normally have to pay (thanks to the pathetic
award availability on American Airlines).
The program generally has
good award availability, including premium classes on transpacific routes between the U.S. and Asia, which are notoriously hard to
get with miles.
Or you could
get a United first - class
award seat, which is going to cost you 160,000 miles per roundtrip but has
better availability.
The
best way to
get your
award ticket is to find
availability and then call and feed the info to an agent.
Award seat
availability is already
good, and will only
get better once Delta's service begins.
In fact, I would put Spirit
award availability a tad above Delta Skymiles, but, again, it
gets much
better if you are close to FLL.
On the redemption side, the
award chart to / from Europe isn't too bad (62,500 miles for a transatlantic one - way in business class) and you
get access to much
better availability on AF / KL's own flights that when booking with Delta.
And Korean Air has access to Air France
award seats on the same level as other partners, without blocking, which in my experience means
better availability than you can
get using Delta SkyMiles.
Overall, this partnership is
good news because Virgin Atlantic is a transfer partner of American Express Membership Rewards, Chase Ultimate Rewards and Starwood Preferred Guest, so there are now more options to book Delta flights without having SkyMiles (though partners like Virgin Atlantic only
get access to low - level
awards, meaning
availability can be slim on certain routes).
- Cathay First class
award availability is excellent, and it
gets progressively
better closer to the day of the flight, so keep on checking!
In my opinion, given the lack of
availability that is continuing to
get worse, American may very
well end up being the least valuable
award mile before much longer.
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Rather, it was that the industry has
gotten better at displaying the
availability of these
awards.
It has trouble with some partner
award availability and pulling up
awards with mixed cabins (for instance, if one flight has a business - class seat
availability but the next segment only has economy
awards available), though that seems to have
gotten better lately.